Opinion

President Obama's rhetoric couldn't possibly soar high enough to conceal the truth about the gun-control proposals and dictates he announced Wednesday because they suffer from the same fatal flaws as all previous attempts to "make America safer" by government fiat. Nothing he proposed, not even restrictions most responsible gun owners wouldn't find objectionable, will make Americans any safer than they were before the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook massacre. The cold truth is that even if confiscation of every privately held pistol, rifle, shotgun and "assault weapon" were possible, it wouldn't deter people hell bent on mayhem and murder.

But Mr. Obama tried to make his ideas sound reasonable, compassionate and necessary with a variation on the tired catchphrase of the intellectually lazy: "(I)f there's even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try."

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